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Updated Build
Website
The Build
Initiative's website (www.buildinitiative.org)
has recently been updated and navigation simplified. Among
the new additions are summaries of 2005 plans of the Build
grantee states and highlights of past Learning Community
conference calls.
For more information click
here.
2005
Build National Meeting
The 2005
national convening of the Build Initiative states is scheduled
for September 13 - 15 in Baltimore. A one-day communications
meeting will be held on September 15 - 16 in collaboration
with the Communications Consortium Media Center. Teams from
all Build states will participate.
For
more information click
here.
Build's
Theory of Change
The Build
Initiative's Theory of Change organizes the work of the
initiative into three interlocking sets of assumptions:
core components of an early learning system, strategies
for building the system, and Build's catalytic role in supporting
states in system building.
For
more information click
here.
Recent
Build Learning Community Calls
Learning
Community conference calls were held on January 31 to describe
the Born Learning public awareness and engagement
campaign and on March 10 to discuss the community-based
doula model.
For
more information click
here.
New
Resources
Building
an Early Learning System: The ABCs of Planning and Governance
Structures
This publication, developed by the Child and Family Policy
Center in collaboration with the Build Initiative, shares
state models and considerations in developing planning
and governance approaches to create and manage an early
learning system. Build developed a companion policy brief,
which is intended primarily for policymakers.
For
more information click
here.
Early
Learning Left Out, Volume 2
This is the second study of public investments in young
children as compared to school-aged and college-aged children
and youth. The Child and Family Policy Center and Voices
for America's Children teamed with twelve states in the
first round and nine states in the second round to study
expenditures by child age. The state studies found that
much less is invested in preschool children, and even
less in infants and toddlers.
For
more information click
here.
Missed
Opportunities: The Possibilities and Challenges of Funding
High Quality Preschool through Title I of the No Child
Left Behind Act
This paper from the Center for Law and Social Policy provides
general background on the legislation behind Title I and
gives an overview of the available data on the use of
Title I funds for preschool. Examples of how some states
and communities have used Title I funds for preschool
programs are given.
Download
the PDF
Early
Education for All: A Wise Investment
Legal Momentum's Family Initiative and the MIT Workplace
Center cosponsored a conference in December 2004 on "The
Economic Impacts of Child Care and Early Education: Financing
Solutions for the Future." Based on the conference
presentations, Family Initiative produced a report, which
pulled together scholarly research, economic development
studies, and the experience of state-level initiatives
to make the case for investing in early care and education
as an economic driver.
Executive Summary Download
the PDF
Full Report Download
the PDF
Leadership
Matters: Governors' Pre-K Proposals Fiscal Year 2006
Twenty governors have proposed increased investments in
their state's prekindergarten programs for FY 06, as compared
to just eleven governors in the previous year. This report
from Pre-K Now highlights gubernatorial leadership in
the national pre-k movement, as reflected in State of
the State addresses and proposed budgets for the upcoming
fiscal year.
Download
the PDF
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